21Linux
WordPress – block xml-rpc
How to disable or block XML-RPC in wordpress served by apache server.
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22Linux
Make http request with telnet
One of the most frequent interview question for tech professionals, especially system administrators and developers is - "tell us what happens when you type a URL in
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23Linux
Linux – find a file by inode number
In Linux, the find command is most commonly used to search files using different criteria such as file name, size and modified time. Did you know that you can search
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24Linux
Linux – show file system type
Linux supports several file systems, including VFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4 and Reiser. The ext* family of file systems are probably the most popular ones.
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25Linux
Linux : using zip to compress or decompress files
There are several tools for compressing and decompressing files in Linux, you can get a summary of these tools in this link. Zip is one of the utilities used for pac
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26Linux
Linux – Find and replace text in multiple files
Contents of most text files change during the life of the file , and it is common to find yourself trying to search and replace certain text across multiple files. I
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27Linux
Installing Google Cloud SDK in Linux
How to install Google cloud platform(GCP) sdk - gcloud cli tool
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28Linux
Ansible : Run playbooks as a script
Ansible is a powerful tool for automation, its syntax checking, verbose and dry run mode features make it a reliable and safe tool. It is particularly popular in IT
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29Linux
How to find the type of storage engine a MySQL table uses
MySQL supports several storage engines such as InnoDB, MyISAM, BLACKHOLE, CSV. Depending on your use case, you might configure your MySQL table to use certain storag
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30Linux
iptables – table full and dropping packets
I actually saw this error in a Docker host, and Docker uses iptables and allof Docker’s iptables rules are added to the DOCKER chain. In this case though, it wasn't
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